Mvp Fan Club - Page 277

On October 16 2012 18:28 opterown wrote:

creator's vods and replays took me about a week to finish, and mvp has many times creator's games haha

On March 10 2013 10:45 monkybone wrote:
Odd game 5 vs Yoda, but I can appreciate what Mvp attempted here. It's part of what makes him a scary tournament opponent I guess. Always intriguing to see the choices Mvp makes.

It was an absolute blast to see him perform so well in this tournament, hopefully his wrists won't bother him too much, and he can keep his level in the GSL as well.

On March 14 2013 08:41 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote:

Things didn't get any easier for YoDa in the semi-finals, as he went up against his titan of a teammate in Mvp. YoDa ended up having to go a full five games yet again, in a series that saw both players constantly trying to get the better of each other with reaper openings, widow mine drops, and other tactics unique to HotS. While no one would doubt the power of afterburner medivacs in the tournament as a whole, they actually seemed to backfire on the user in this particular series, with both YoDa and Mvp paying the price for dropping too recklessly on occasion. That happened to be the case in game five, where a failed two-medivac drop from Mvp early on allowed YoDa to slowly turn that advantage into a late game victory.


HotS may end up being the great equalizer between the eSF and their KeSPA counterparts, but for international players, they might be forced to suffer the Korean hegemony for another couple of years. As an all LG-IM top four would indicate, none of the non-Korean players made it to the semi-finals, with Ret and MaNa bowing out of the Ro8 with 0 - 3 defeats to Mvp and YongHwa.

In mouz.MaNa's case, he went into the Ro8 off of a feel-good victory against rival Polish player Acer.Nerchio, but had very little reason to be optimistic. His opponent, Mvp, was not only a four time GSL champion, but one who had shown impressive use of the new medivacs to aggravate and pick apart opponents in the group stages. Not surprisingly, MaNa ended up being Mvp's next victim, and was shut out 0 - 3 in a series where the power of infantry drops was on full display.

Afterburners: Too Fast, Too Furious? If we toss the most noticable afterburner beatdown games of Mvp vs. Grubby/Stephano/MaNa out the window then we're left with only a few match-ups to sort through.

Luckily, we're guaranteed Polt vs. Creator, and MarineKing/Jjakji vs. Seed/Rain at MLG, and probably Mvp vs. MC/CJ_herO after that (if Mvp beats Feast).

Mines are Kinda Cute: One thing we didn't get a chance to see much of was active mine use past the early-mid game. From the games that were broadcast, only Lucifron and Mvp really made a point of adding a noticable amount of widow mines to their late game armies, both of them in the TvZ match-up.

Hellbats Still Exist... Most notably, Mvp used them as meat shields for his TvT mech, while Sting went for hellbat-thor-tank mech in several of his TvZ games.